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Sorian
Cruncher United States Joined: Dec 31, 2006 Post Count: 9 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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HI all, I just noticed my client is no longer wanting to pull work on any projects.
----------------------------------------System specs: Window XP SP3 Boinc Version 6.12.34 Log: 10/24/2011 8:23:45 AM | World Community Grid | URL http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID 1715731; resource share 100 10/24/2011 8:23:45 AM | | Preferences: 10/24/2011 8:23:45 AM | | max memory usage when active: 2238.59MB 10/24/2011 8:23:45 AM | | max memory usage when idle: 2984.78MB 10/24/2011 8:23:45 AM | | max disk usage: 10.00GB 10/24/2011 8:23:45 AM | | don't use GPU while active 10/24/2011 8:23:45 AM | | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 50 % 10/24/2011 8:23:45 AM | | (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager) 10/24/2011 8:23:45 AM | | Not using a proxy 10/24/2011 8:32:42 AM | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 10/24/2011 8:32:43 AM | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. 10/24/2011 9:00:01 AM | | Suspending network activity - time of day 10/25/2011 7:00:00 AM | | Resuming network activity 10/25/2011 7:05:50 AM | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 10/25/2011 7:05:52 AM | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. 10/25/2011 7:13:56 AM | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 10/25/2011 7:13:57 AM | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. 10/25/2011 7:26:32 AM | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 10/25/2011 7:26:34 AM | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. 10/25/2011 7:28:59 AM | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 10/25/2011 7:29:00 AM | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. 10/25/2011 7:32:38 AM | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 10/25/2011 7:32:39 AM | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. 10/25/2011 9:00:01 AM | | Suspending network activity - time of day 10/26/2011 7:00:00 AM | | Resuming network activity 10/26/2011 7:00:11 AM | World Community Grid | Sending scheduler request: Requested by project. 10/26/2011 7:00:11 AM | World Community Grid | Not reporting or requesting tasks 10/26/2011 7:00:13 AM | World Community Grid | Scheduler request completed 10/26/2011 7:49:39 AM | | Running CPU benchmarks 10/26/2011 7:49:39 AM | | Suspending computation - CPU benchmarks in progress 10/26/2011 7:50:11 AM | | Benchmark results: 10/26/2011 7:50:11 AM | | Number of CPUs: 8 10/26/2011 7:50:11 AM | | 3326 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU 10/26/2011 7:50:11 AM | | 9077 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU 10/26/2011 7:50:13 AM | | Resuming computation 10/26/2011 8:42:16 AM | World Community Grid | update requested by user 10/26/2011 8:42:21 AM | World Community Grid | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. 10/26/2011 8:42:21 AM | World Community Grid | Not reporting or requesting tasks 10/26/2011 8:42:23 AM | World Community Grid | Scheduler request completed 10/26/2011 8:45:34 AM | World Community Grid | update requested by user 10/26/2011 8:45:38 AM | World Community Grid | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. 10/26/2011 8:45:38 AM | World Community Grid | Not reporting or requesting tasks 10/26/2011 8:45:39 AM | World Community Grid | Scheduler request completed 10/26/2011 8:48:12 AM | World Community Grid | work fetch suspended by user 10/26/2011 8:48:15 AM | World Community Grid | work fetch resumed by user Status for WCG is blank, unlike SETI which has the normal communication deferred Looking at properties: World Community grid CPU work fetch priority is set to -1227566.72 SETI@Home CPU work fetch priority is set to 0 I have no idea if this is on my end (never messed with that), or on the server end. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Sorian at Oct 26, 2011 2:02:06 PM] |
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Former Member
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Which projects are you enabled for? Are you working on any workunits?
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pcwr
Ace Cruncher England Joined: Sep 17, 2005 Post Count: 10903 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Do you still get the same problem after a reboot of the PC?
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sk..
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I have normal communications with WCG servers. So the problem is with your setup. Might be DNS issue, so I suggest you restart you router (off for 1min) and then restart your system.
Might also be a problem with that client version (6.12.34) and the use of Suspending and Resuming Network Activity: 10/24/2011 9:00:01 AM | | Suspending network activity - time of day 10/25/2011 7:00:00 AM | | Resuming network activity 10/25/2011 7:05:50 AM | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 10/25/2011 7:05:52 AM | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. |
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Sorian
Cruncher United States Joined: Dec 31, 2006 Post Count: 9 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Which projects are you enabled for? Are you working on any workunits? d from birmingham I have all available projects enabled, had no running workunits when I posted this, that I why I started investigating and then posting here. Do you still get the same problem after a reboot of the PC? Patrick Yes, I have restarted, not change for that whole day. I have normal communications with WCG servers. So the problem is with your setup. Might be DNS issue, so I suggest you restart you router (off for 1min) and then restart your system. Might also be a problem with that client version (6.12.34) and the use of Suspending and Resuming Network Activity: 10/24/2011 9:00:01 AM | | Suspending network activity - time of day 10/25/2011 7:00:00 AM | | Resuming network activity 10/25/2011 7:05:50 AM | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 10/25/2011 7:05:52 AM | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. skgiven This was the first time I had it have a problem in 2 months since having to enable a specific time to connect to the internet (work PC). Apparently on that day, all the way till now the network at work has been "acting up" as the IT department is telling me. As of right now, I am able to pull work from the servers. |
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Former Member
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Ah the network you are using to connect to the internet is down. Bane of computer users everywhere. Glad you figured the problem was external and solved.
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Mysteron347
Senior Cruncher Australia Joined: Apr 28, 2007 Post Count: 179 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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What would worry me is this sequence in the log..
10/26/2011 7:50:13 AM | | Resuming computation 10/26/2011 8:42:16 AM | World Community Grid | update requested by user 10/26/2011 8:42:21 AM | World Community Grid | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. 10/26/2011 8:42:21 AM | World Community Grid | Not reporting or requesting tasks 10/26/2011 8:42:23 AM | World Community Grid | Scheduler request completed 10/26/2011 8:45:34 AM | World Community Grid | update requested by user 10/26/2011 8:45:38 AM | World Community Grid | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. 10/26/2011 8:45:38 AM | World Community Grid | Not reporting or requesting tasks 10/26/2011 8:45:39 AM | World Community Grid | Scheduler request completed 10/26/2011 8:48:12 AM | World Community Grid | work fetch suspended by user 10/26/2011 8:48:15 AM | World Community Grid | work fetch resumed by user Why is BOINC not requesting further tasks when it (apparently) has none? I've seen the same myself on many occasions - 'though IIRC an UPDATE has triggered a fetch (vaguely, regardless of the Not..requesting tasks) And there are 8 cores down here on one machine - that's more than I have available total  |
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Former Member
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This:
World Community grid CPU work fetch priority is set to -1227566.72 Is the reason no work is requested, no matter how often the update button is hit... WCG has a massive debt to other projects associated to that client. Do a WCG project reset and it will be zero'd ** or suspend all work fetches for other projects on that client, and debt will increase again, but work should be fetched, particularly if there are idle cores. --//-- ** For the advanced users, there's an <options> flag <zero_debts>1</zero_debts> that can be set one time to 1 in the cc_config.xml to zero all debts of all projects. Reread the config in the client advanced menu, then edit the value to 0, else each time the client reads the config (boot e.g.), debts will be reset. (A project reset via the interface will cause all science apps to be re-downloaded, no fun with CEP2!) |
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Sorian
Cruncher United States Joined: Dec 31, 2006 Post Count: 9 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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This: World Community grid CPU work fetch priority is set to -1227566.72 Is the reason no work is requested, no matter how often the update button is hit... WCG has a massive debt to other projects associated to that client. Do a WCG project reset and it will be zero'd ** or suspend all work fetches for other projects on that client, and debt will increase again, but work should be fetched, particularly if there are idle cores. --//-- ** For the advanced users, there's an <options> flag <zero_debts>1</zero_debts> that can be set one time to 1 in the cc_config.xml to zero all debts of all projects. Reread the config in the client advanced menu, then edit the value to 0, else each time the client reads the config (boot e.g.), debts will be reset. (A project reset via the interface will cause all science apps to be re-downloaded, no fun with CEP2!) Thanks, I will do a reset after the 8 or so work is done, just in case. |
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Former Member
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If you consider that WCG is 8 projects, soon => 10 full active, and most all others are 1, than maybe you'd like to play the resource share / project weight value on the website device profiles. I got WCG set to 500 and others to 50, so at the end the 10 other projects get a total of half the time, when not suspended, and WCG gets the other half. Shares are computed as the fraction of the total, so total all projects weights 1000 with WCG having 500 means 50%.
Don't know what client version you run, but the debt system is varying and in the next client 7.0 is completely revamped and probably upsetting to some who'd like a quasi daily balance, rather than long term. Some others, including me, wont like it because a mix of applications on multi-core devices tends to be more efficient, when running heavy types such as CEP2. Albeit, that client is still in alpha testing, so maybe an ear is found ... after all, crunching efficiency is not an to be underestimated factor. --//-- |
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